Gene Game

32 The Past (2)

    "It's not easy to be able to enjoy old age in our business," Liu Yi felt the same. "I have had four or five times, and I was almost killed. I can still sit here and drink now. I don't lack arms and legs. It's luck. Not bad. You have more similar experiences, right?"

    "There are quite a few." General Woody took a sip of wine and stopped talking. After letting the silence pervade for a moment, he exhaled: "The most dangerous one was in Syria six years ago."

    General Woody's gaze came directly, full of power, but not majestic. The time and place name in his mouth calmed Liu Yi's slightly fevered mind due to alcohol: "I would like to hear the details."

    "That battle left me with this," the old general pointed to his shoulders that were high and low. "I have almost seen the god of death stretch the sickle toward me. I still don't understand it. At that time, Why can I survive? I swear before the Declaration of Independence, and I don’t want to be ashamed of my conscience, let alone lie to your fighters. That time, the action I participated in was nothing justice..."

    Six years ago, when the Syrian civil war was in full swing, Woody was still a colonel. At that time, the front between the two sides was glued to the central province of Raqqa. The intelligence department found a path left by the Soviet invasion in the mountainous area of southern Raqqa, so equipment, ammunition, food, medicine, and materials flowed from this secret road. The ground is sent to the opposition armed forces to support them in launching battle after battle.

    However, this secret supply did not last long, and they were attacked one after another. At first, the US military failed to grasp the identity of the attacker. It was not until the third attack that it was finally found out that it was a newly formed local guerrilla team. The title and number of the guerrillas were "unknown" in terms of information. The only thing we knew was that the guerrillas were equipped with high-performance power armor, and ordinary guards could not fight back in front of them.

    Against this background, Colonel Woody's troops appeared.

    The colonel has long devoted himself to studying how to give full play to the role of Power Armor. In addition to his outstanding achievements in Afghanistan and Mexico, he also authored the book "The Birth of the Power Force". No matter experience or theoretical research, no one in the US military can and. He was sent to perform this task, and the emphasis on supply channel guarantees is evident.

    After a series of reconnaissance and temptation, the colonel's team officially met with the guerrillas. Using the old transport vehicles loaded with gravel as bait to occupy favorable terrain in advance, and seizing the opportunity to attack when the guerrillas attacked, the plan made by the colonel was seamless.

    The battle of the day followed the script written by the colonel for most of the time. Sure enough, the guerrillas were deceived, and when the decoy convoy reached the expected ambush circle, dozens of Russian power armors appeared on both sides of the hills as if they had fallen from the sky. Most of them are old MDS-84 and MDA-82, and there are also one or two newer MDS-98.

    The colonel immediately commanded the troops to attack, destroying half of the guerrilla power armor in just two minutes. In order to find the home of the guerrillas, he intentionally left half alive.

    The guerrillas quickly retreated, and Colonel Woody personally led the team to pursue them. The performance of the opponent's power armor is far inferior to that of his own, and he has become a frightful bird. It couldn't be easier to catch a few prisoners. At this moment, the enemy he will never forget appeared on a ridge at 3 o'clock.

    It is a special model of MDT-98 "Greater Caucasus", designed by the Ural Design Bureau and produced by the 152 factories in St. Petersburg. NATO code-named "Ninja", only equipped with special forces. The guerrillas will have it in their hands, probably leftover from the Soviet invasion, so its equipment is already outdated. In addition to this power armor, there are also four or five MDS-84s. When I first saw these enemies, no one took them seriously. The guerrillas' reserve team is nothing but a threat to them.

    Then the nightmare came without warning.

    The first to suffer was the snipers in the team. The distance between the "ninja" and them was roughly between 800 and 1,000 meters. In just 20 seconds, the only two snipers in the team were shot. Everyone was shot in the head, and even the alarm was not issued, and they were killed instantly.

    These twenty seconds were enough for Colonel Woody to understand what kind of enemy he encountered. He made a decisive decision, leaving a small team to continue chasing the guerrillas, and led all the remaining troops to encircle the terrible sniper and his companions.

    The terrain of the mountains is complex, although there is no vegetation cover, the rough rocks provide enough shelter. However, the bullets fired by the opponent seemed to have eyes, and Colonel Woody's men fell one by one, and some of them even had their heads cut off just half of their heads from the shadows.

    That guy’s power armor is not even a sniper type, and he can actually have such accuracy. In the face of unprecedented shooting skills from enemy snipers, the experienced Colonel Woody experienced almost desperate fear on the battlefield for the first time.

    The duration of the battle was quite short. With all his strength and the heroic performance of his subordinates, the colonel succeeded in killing the last guard next to the "ninja". At the same time, his last subordinate fell under the sniper rifle. The performance advantage and the terrain are more suitable for play, but the loss is quite the same. This result can be regarded as a fiasco. Before that, in the same situation, Colonel Woody's team could at least produce a loss ratio of 10:1 or more.

    There was absolutely no escape under that sniper, and the colonel made a desperate attempt to get close. At the juncture of life and death, he took the power armor to its extreme. Luck is also very helpful. On more than one occasion, he relied on intuition, in other words, to dodge the opponent's bullets and successfully approached the distance where the weapon in his hand could function.

    The two-shot fiercely. The assault rifle in the hands of the colonel has the upper hand in terms of firepower, as well as grenades and shoulder-mounted rockets. However, the occasional shot of the sniper is also extremely threatening. The maneuverability of the power armor is also of the textbook level. The two sides are entangled in the jagged rocks like a fighter, and no one can give a fatal blow.

    It's too strong, he will die here today-Colonel Woody has become less confident as he fights. The distance was close enough, but the rocket and grenade were used up, and a bullet pierced the colonel's right shoulder. The injured arm couldn't support the assault rifle. Seeing the opponent's black hole pointed at him, he didn't shoot for some reason. Instead, he hurriedly left along the mountain path that no one knew.

    "Probably his subordinates were merciful," said with emotion, General Woody drank the beer in his glass. "I want to know why the sniper didn't kill me at the time."

    The story ends here. The skills of the old general are obvious to all. There was a sniper who forced him to this level. Everyone talked about it, and then I remembered that someone had done the same thing in yesterday's game.

    Ordering another beer, General Woody stared at Liu Yi and asked, "That sniper...what was he thinking at that time?"

    "I think," Liu Yi pursed his lips, feeling complicated. "That sniper just has no bullets."